Maine

Maine entered the Union in March 1820 as part of the Missouri Compromise. No state outside the original 13 colonies has started with more electoral votes – it had nine in the 1820 election. By the mid-19th century, Maine began losing electoral votes, and has had four since the 1964 election. Primarily Republican from the Civil War (going “blue” only in 1912, 1964, and 1968) through the 1980s, Maine has voted Democratic in the last seven elections, although the 2016 race was much closer than in recent elections. Hillary Clinton won the state by just 2.9% over Donald Trump.
Maine was a tale of two states in that 2016 election, as Clinton won the 1st congressional district by nearly 15%, while Trump took the more rural 2nd by over 10%. This is significant in that Maine is one of only two states -along with Nebraska- that do not use a winner-take-all electoral vote allocation. Here, the winner of the popular vote gets two electoral votes, while one is assigned to the winner of each of Maine’s two congressional districts. As a result, Trump won one of the state's four electoral votes. This is the first split since Maine established this approach beginning with the 1972 election. 2016 also saw one of the state's two at-large electors cast a vote for Bernie Sanders. That vote was disallowed and the elector subsequently voted for Clinton.
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Presidential Voting History
State voted with the overall winning candidate
Electoral College Votes
Colored bars represent electoral votes by party. Hover to see names.
U.S. Senate Voting History
Class  | 1984 | 1986 | 1988 | 1990 | 1992 | 1994 | 1996 | 1998 | 2000 | 2002 | 2004 | 2006 | 2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 | 2018 | 2020 |
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Data: MIT Election Data and Science Lab / Harvard Dataverse. These are general election results for the years listed.
There are three classes of Senators; one is up for election every second year. Each state has one Senator in two of the three classes.
U.S. House Voting History
District | 1984 | 1986 | 1988 | 1990 | 1992 | 1994 | 1996 | 1998 | 2000 | 2002 | 2004 | 2006 | 2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 | 2018 | 2020 |
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1 | R | D | D | D | D | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
2 | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | D | D |
Data: The Princeton Gerrymandering Project. These are general election results for the years listed.
Vertical lines before 1992, 2002 and 2012 show Census-related redistricting breakpoints. Geographic borders associated with district numbers may have changed.
The state had an additional redistricting before 1994. Same caution about borders applies.
Governor Voting History
Data: Wikipedia. These are general election results for the years listed.